CURSOR across multiple Regions

Question

Hello,
I have a page that I need to display around 300 fields with custom html mixed in. Instead of creating all the page items, I want to just creat a CURSOR and use htp.print. My problem is that its a LOT of code. I want to break it apart across multiple regions. Is their a way to OPEN a cursor so that multiple regions can use it?
Or, back to the PHP days, is their an ARRAY that this can be loaded into and printed like a cursor when needed?

Answer 1

Is their a way to OPEN a cursor so that multiple regions can use it?You can have a process run before all regions to insert records into a collection(by a package call or PLSQL region).
Then refer to this collection in your regions(s)
<li>If you want to separte or split the content across, multiple "regions" , you cab generate them in the same PLSQL code that you posted.
For instance, you have a single PLSQL based region without any template which generate the HTML code that renders like multiple region.
In the Source, you can generate the HTML code for the region(s) in addition to printing out the data.
An Apex region normally consists of div or table elements given some styling using builtin classes(and matching the theme). So if you generate the same HTML, it would render the same as a region.You can copy the HTML content of any region template(or from the rendered page) and add that within the "htp.p" codes.
<li> A third option would be to generate the enclose different sections of your data in some identifiable HTML element and use Javascript to move them under the appropriate region.
Having said this, I have to agree with replies above,there could be a better way of displaying your data than generating the entire HTML yourself.Since you say about using a cursor, I guess multiple SQL reports regions would be a good starting point as they are used for displaying lots of records. You could tweak the look'n'feel with some kind of customized template, rather that redo the whole thing yourself.